Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part, Harvard, led by President Pusey, who succeeded James B. Conant in 1953, refused to yield to red-baiting. Yet news stories like this one in a late 1953 Crimson were common: "In a defiant reply to charges made last week by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, President Pusey yesterday declared Harvard is 'absolutely, unalterably and finally opposed to Communism,' and so far as he knows there are no communists on the Harvard faculty." Earlier, an accusation by a former Central Intelligence Agency agent forced John K. Fairbank '29, then professor of History and now Higginson Professor of History Emeritus...
Organizers said they were disappointed with the turnout. "We were hoping for more, but the other rally (a Fair Share demonstration on Boston Common) may have lured them away," Cathy Matthews, a Mobilization for Survival official who organized the demonstration said. Earlier in the week, protest organizers said they hoped 1000 would join the rally...
...Chinese. To provide evidence for his reasoning, Louis quotes strongly chauvinistic Russian ethnographers and explorers of the 19th century and laces his narrative with chapter headings like "Yellow Colonialism," "They Want to Secede" and "The Aggressor Rebuffed." He argues that China "can hardly be said to have any common cultural makeup" and virtually denies the existence of an official national dialect, Mandarin. He also asserts that the Chinese are not patriotic but only respond to individual leadership...
...count, in 1977) have been fairly stable. But there has been a price to pay. The nation is suffering from a doctor shortage, because many physicians have left the country feeling that they cannot earn enough under NHS, and waits of three to six months for elective surgery are common...
...White House and Kennedy contend that public sentiment is building irresistibly for the eventual enactment of some kind of universal health insurance plan. The present programs vary wildly but have one thing in common: the costs keep rising...